ISBN:
9781800737853
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Undetermined
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (496 p)
Edition:
1st edition
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Keywords:
History (General), Political and Economic Anthropology, Anthropology (General)
Abstract:
The long tradition of Western political thought included kinship in models of public order, but the social sciences excised it from theories of the state, public sphere, and democratic order. Kinship has, however, neither completely disappeared from the political cultures of the West nor played the determining social and political role ascribed to it elsewhere. Exploring the issues that arise once the divide between kinship and politics is no longer taken for granted, The Politics of Making Kinship demonstrates how political processes have shaped concepts of kinship over time and, conversely, how political projects have been shaped by specific understandings, idioms and uses of kinship. Taking vantage points from the post-Roman era to early modernity, and from colonial imperialism to the fall of the Berlin Wall and beyond this international set of scholars place kinship centerstage and reintegrate it with political theory
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Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Politics of Making Kinship -- Erdmute Alber, David Warren Sabean, Simon Teuscher, Tatjana Thelen -- Part I: Epistemologies -- Chapter 1 . Quantifying Generations. Peter Damian Develops a New System of Kinship Calculation -- Simon Teuscher -- Chapter 2. Kinship Matters: Genealogical and Historiographical Practices between 1750 and 1850 -- Michaela Hohkamp -- Chapter 3. Race and Kinship: Anthropology and the “Genealogical Method” -- Staffan Müller-Wille -- Chapter 4. Kinship Meets Corporation: Perspectives on Kinship and Politics in the Formative Moment of Social Anthropology -- Thomas Zitelmann -- Chapter 5. German Kinship: Forming a Political Unit and Epistemic Void -- Tatjana Thelen -- Part II: Projects -- Chapter 6. Making Family and Kinship: Reflections on Hegel and Parsons -- David Warren Sabean -- Chapter 7. Conceptualizing Kinship in Sixteenth-Century Political Theories. Bodin's and Hotman's Ideas of Monarchy -- Julia Heinemann -- Chapter 8. Commonwealths of Affection: Kinship, Marriage, and Polity in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century America -- Susan McKinnon -- Chapter 9. Towards a Political Economy of the Maternal Body. Claiming Maternal Filiation in Nineteenth-Century French Feminism -- Caroline Arni -- Part III: Deployments -- Outline and summaries -- Chapter 10. Inventing the Extended Family in Colonial Dahomey/Benin -- Erdmute Alber -- Chapter 11. “As If Begotten and Born of Feeborn Parents” - Indicators and Considerations on Parentalization of Emancipated Slaves in the Post-Roman Occident -- Ludolf Kuchenbuch -- Chapter 12. From Natural Difference to Equal Value: The Case of Egg Donation in Norway -- Merit Melhus -- Chapter 13. Family and Kinship in Early Modern Contractarian State Theories -- Jon Mathieu -- Chapter 14. Translating the Family -- Claudia Derichs -- Index
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